Bo Burnham Quotes

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.